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Yale College admits 2,269 of 12,528 applicants, an admission rate of 18.1 percent. Including tuition, room, and board, the full cost of a year at Yale College is $20,820.

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The Hubble Space Telescope is launched. It remains in use today.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein orders the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, triggering the Persian Gulf War. The conflict will cost coalition forces upwards of sixty billion dollars and leave Hussein in control of Iraq.

The Yale AIDS Memorial Project, (YAMP) is an alumni-led ini­tia­tive to honor and doc­u­ment the lives of hun­dreds of men and women from the Uni­ver­sity who per­ished dur­ing the AIDS epi­demic. Learn more about YAMP at http://www.yaleaidsmemorialproject.org.